Comments on: Bobby Jenks may not pitch until midseasonhttp://mlb.nbcsports.com/2012/02/20/bobby-jenks-may-not-pitch-until-midseason/
Baseball. Baseball. And then a bit more baseball.Mon, 19 Mar 2018 14:39:50 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.com/By: WhenMattStairsIsKinghttp://mlb.nbcsports.com/2012/02/20/bobby-jenks-may-not-pitch-until-midseason/#comment-262098
Tue, 21 Feb 2012 17:36:45 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=114629#comment-262098There’s concern and pensiveness every time a lot of money is spent. Lackey and Crawford looked great before Boston signed them – especially Crawford. Jenks was riskier for sure, but sometimes you roll the dice, and sometimes you have guys above you making you offer contracts. We don’t know everything, as fans of a complicated business.

Seriously, sometimes things just don’t work out. I hope Theo continues to focues on my Cubs farm system and learns from those big signings.

]]>By: homelanddefensehttp://mlb.nbcsports.com/2012/02/20/bobby-jenks-may-not-pitch-until-midseason/#comment-261975
Tue, 21 Feb 2012 14:39:52 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=114629#comment-261975thats not completely true. There were many people questioning the money he gave to Lackey and Jenks when those signings were made. There was even some, although much less, concern about Crawford.

As far as Theo goes his tenure is split in two parts IMO. The beginning was brilliant, the last two or three years not so great. Overall he won 2 WS so I cant complain….but it doesnt mean a Red Sox fan shouldnt be upset over the condition he left the team.

]]>By: deathmonkey41http://mlb.nbcsports.com/2012/02/20/bobby-jenks-may-not-pitch-until-midseason/#comment-261974
Tue, 21 Feb 2012 14:39:19 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=114629#comment-261974Can we assume that when Jenks does come back, he’ll be in TBSOHL?
]]>By: patsandsoxhttp://mlb.nbcsports.com/2012/02/20/bobby-jenks-may-not-pitch-until-midseason/#comment-261911
Tue, 21 Feb 2012 03:24:18 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=114629#comment-261911Ari Collins I can only guess you never followed the Sox before 2004 if you can some how say the sox of that year were 70% Theos its the other way around, in fact almost 90% Dukes team until he traded Nomar half way through the season.
Any way I agree with you on his development and drafting skills I had overlooked that. I forgot that and have to give him his due for that.
Just angry about all the Lugos, Renterias, Lackeys, Jenks, Crawfords, Camerons…..
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Tue, 21 Feb 2012 00:49:56 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=114629#comment-261878a) the ’04 team was mostly Theo’s, even if it was still like 30% Duquette. The ’07 team was like 95% Theo.

b) Theo wasn’t a disaster with FA, he had quite a few good ones as well and a couple great FA signings. The terrible ones were more recent and (by nature) made bigger news, but regardless, he was still below average with his FA buys.

c) Besides trades, Theo’s other strength was in drafting and developing. And locking those players up to good contracts, which is why there’s still a good young core going forward.

]]>By: ken1lutheranhttp://mlb.nbcsports.com/2012/02/20/bobby-jenks-may-not-pitch-until-midseason/#comment-261861
Tue, 21 Feb 2012 00:12:58 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=114629#comment-261861I can’t believe people bashing Theo. Has everyone already forgotten that the Red Sox hadn’t won a World Series since 1918 when he took over? That in his very first year as GM, he pulled in a bunch of reject scrubs which proceeded to get to Game 7 of the ALCS and lost that game only because Grady Little didn’t know when to pull Pedro Martinez? That in the years that followed, the Red Sox won two World Series?

Come on; he did an amazing job as GM. Let’s not act like Yankees fans who think that anything less than winning the World Series every year is failure.

]]>By: pogodog7http://mlb.nbcsports.com/2012/02/20/bobby-jenks-may-not-pitch-until-midseason/#comment-261860
Tue, 21 Feb 2012 00:11:24 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=114629#comment-261860Jenks will never be a decent pitcher again until he stops being a fat blob
]]>By: baseballisboringhttp://mlb.nbcsports.com/2012/02/20/bobby-jenks-may-not-pitch-until-midseason/#comment-261834
Mon, 20 Feb 2012 22:44:46 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=114629#comment-261834I just can’t even imagine lacking perspective and reasoning skills to the point where I would write something like this.
]]>By: patsandsoxhttp://mlb.nbcsports.com/2012/02/20/bobby-jenks-may-not-pitch-until-midseason/#comment-261823
Mon, 20 Feb 2012 22:28:17 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=114629#comment-261823My feeling is Jenks will throw a couple of good outings in Septermber. Just enough that someone will take a chance on him. He will be with the Sox just long enough to get healthy
]]>By: patsandsoxhttp://mlb.nbcsports.com/2012/02/20/bobby-jenks-may-not-pitch-until-midseason/#comment-261821
Mon, 20 Feb 2012 22:26:12 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=114629#comment-261821So sad and so True Uyfi. As with many other loser we have both suffered with.
]]>By: patsandsoxhttp://mlb.nbcsports.com/2012/02/20/bobby-jenks-may-not-pitch-until-midseason/#comment-261819
Mon, 20 Feb 2012 22:23:58 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=114629#comment-261819Theo thought he was a young George Steinbrenner. I for one will not miss him. Cherrington will take a year or two to jettison the Lackeys, Jenks and other major blunders of theo the “genius”. Most of his success was in place before his arrival, he was good with trades, and disaster with free agents. If there was any justice he would have to take Lackey with him as the “compensation”. Then we could see how the Cubs fans would feel about thier savior. I expect him to join the long list of people that failed as the next person to fix the Cubs.
For the true Cubs fans I hope I am proved wrong. I dont see a contending club in place with just a piece or two to tweak as he had in Boston when he arrived here.

Good luck Cubbies, Theo is a fraud.

]]>By: baseballisboringhttp://mlb.nbcsports.com/2012/02/20/bobby-jenks-may-not-pitch-until-midseason/#comment-261807
Mon, 20 Feb 2012 22:17:08 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=114629#comment-261807For god’s sake, thank you.
]]>By: frenchy121212http://mlb.nbcsports.com/2012/02/20/bobby-jenks-may-not-pitch-until-midseason/#comment-261795
Mon, 20 Feb 2012 22:03:30 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=114629#comment-261795The less jenks pitches, the better off the redsox are. Get well soon Bobby.
]]>By: WhenMattStairsIsKinghttp://mlb.nbcsports.com/2012/02/20/bobby-jenks-may-not-pitch-until-midseason/#comment-261787
Mon, 20 Feb 2012 21:48:26 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=114629#comment-261787They all looked good at the time. Not everything works out.
]]>By: uyf1950http://mlb.nbcsports.com/2012/02/20/bobby-jenks-may-not-pitch-until-midseason/#comment-261774
Mon, 20 Feb 2012 21:27:07 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=114629#comment-261774Two complete wastes: Bobby Jenks for the Sox and Pedro Feliciano for the Yankees. The truly sad part about all of this is that come next season there will be other teams willing to throw money at these guys. WHAT A WASTE.
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Mon, 20 Feb 2012 21:26:38 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=114629#comment-261773All I can say about this news is “drat”. As a Jays fan, I will miss him.
]]>By: pisanohttp://mlb.nbcsports.com/2012/02/20/bobby-jenks-may-not-pitch-until-midseason/#comment-261772
Mon, 20 Feb 2012 21:24:29 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=114629#comment-261772Yeah, Jenks, Crawford,Lackey, and a few others, Theo’s swan song to John Henry.
]]>By: bigharoldhttp://mlb.nbcsports.com/2012/02/20/bobby-jenks-may-not-pitch-until-midseason/#comment-261768
Mon, 20 Feb 2012 21:20:58 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=114629#comment-261768The Curse of Theo lives yet!